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Aren't they like a movie podcast now anyway; so per my no-eyes policy established above, not my purview anymore
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*he's a good interview I should read his book, get the salacious details on everyone's favourite tv funny man Jay Sherman
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Liz don't fall for it the guys done podcasts you can listen to it no need to strain your eyes
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It's certainly the one I remember. It does have certain advantages in that it is centered around "blue-collar" workers, with the former being more unusual these days for TV
Also them working for a large company probably helped since they don't have to vilify main cast
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A shame too, because Superstore got a lot of good comedy AND drama out of the complications of wrangling a bunch of TV weirdos into a union against their massive conglomerate
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I've complained (a lot) that every genre protagonist has to be a secret prince or heir to something nowadays, but the big new thing is the weird secrecy (nepo anxiety?)
Of course in fantasy princes and secret princes have been standards since inception
But Val's onto it maybe infecting TV SF
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Both reflect the modes popular at the time mind. Star Trek came onto a TV landscape dominated by Westerns, and Western heroes tend not to be long lost princes. By TNG and DS9 a lot had changed and one notable change was the Star Wars, with its heroic birthright.
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Maybe they just weren't hot enough to rile up the computer
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You mean Spain right, wrote up a reply about Vichy.
That's a funny example, and just about hits the 40year mark right?
I mean if Franco couldn't pull the trigger on monarchy I guess it is functionally an anti-Republican Republic? I know very little of how all that shook out
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Oh yeah with some caveats
Even roughly the same polity too which is a plus
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Rome I guess never bit the bullet and had the exact title as the mythical kings, but they'd count somewhat I guess
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What is the longest a country has gone as a republic before becoming a monarchy again anyways?
All the examples I recall are circa 20 and 30 years (England, Cambodia) so I guess 40 isn't stretching it too bad
*Bulgaria is a fun non-example though
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Which I prefer to be fair (except being I think it adds something in DS9, although in the context of Star Trek as a franchise the galactic events of DS9 are curiously underplayed funny enough)
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(it's probably closer to just being like a Fantasy thing; everybody except for Sam in LOTR is an heir to something or another, and that's a pretty default mode for epic fantasy, at least into the 80s)
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That's TV ensembles for you, everybody's gotta be somebody's everything
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That's clever wordplay
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That's true but also if I saw that headline a year ago I would have just assumed Trump won the election, he was already on about Greenland pre-Covid wouldn't seem far-fetched at all
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AIRC LeGuin looked at it a bit askance later for that reason. But I think it hits the mark
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Really a combo of all the Bluths, which is fitting since they partially borrowed off the Bushes
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I think not? Which I guess is mildly novel. At most something close to Moses/Muhammed but not really, not with that stature.
Which feels less novel distinction than contributing to their bloodlessness as a conceit. I always think the 7 Gods sound so rote, worse than a parody of the trinity
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lol, sure. Lack of imagination?
I guess the Weirwoods (where the gods turn out to be real enough just not gods per se more Panopticon) also seem to have been in effect the whole time but probably in some long-term decline even before the dragons died out, but not effected by their reemergence
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Melisandre's shadow-kids seem like they're maybe not completely church-sanctioned, or her agenda in general. There don't seem to be other red priests with Stannis for one.
In general I think the implication is that the miracles like Thoros' are increasing in power with the dragons returning
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I think this is sort of true, with the injury that The Seven is clearly the least interesting of the religions and the ones GRRM is least interested in. It is basically just your classic cardboard Fantasy Catholicism with quite little interesting stuff going on
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but look at all my swears! by the gods. gods damn it. Gods in heaven! Inventive stuff.
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The sort of ambient feeling I've always gotten is that none of these new shows are actually expanding the audience, which is what you'd want, with relatively limited gains. So then, I guess it's a question of how much the existing Trekkie audience brings in
Also aren't they merging again or what?
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I think Poker Face (not seen s2 yet!) puts enough of the money on screen that you get why they couldn't make more than 10 a season. Of course helped vastly by a frankly 90s standard of serialisation.
But more is usually nicer when it comes to TV
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*the folk-opinion being right
(bad luck, bad writing being partially in conversation)
(Disco early on just had bad mgmt too, that really fucked them in the long run, they had juice to start with too)
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Even TOS as I understand it was fairly expensive for "prime-time TV" the ceiling on that was just much lower both money-wise and technology-wise
I think the folk opinion that it's the reduced orders+serialization( +bad luck/writing) that's why they've never found a full on public hit in 2010s & on
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Even the top usecase for AI IMO (Ye old SFtrope "make your own movie") still feels like it won't be applied to reading because I have some vague notion that reading makes you imagine things in your head through effort so why go through that effort just to look at an AI approximate your imagination
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I think especially for text it's just so cheap anyway? Like you're never going to read all the good books just published in the last 200 years there's too much, there's always going to be some human connection driving it
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Fair! Ambitous then
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Not Mr getting kicked out of the soulful poetry gathering because "You're clearly taking the piss" and not me not recognizing this
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Your views sound crazy but intriguing
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One of the more galling reasons the "Ukraine should just surrender" crowd were so boneheadedly stupid.
That said I think we'll see a proliferation of "Nuclear Winter - not so bad" pieces again soon
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No wait I think you were right, section 9.4
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constit...
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Illegal for individual states I think it's implied or explicit they can outlaw together
So much for state's rights of course
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And of course the Tournament Arc is one of mankind's great inventions
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I always think sports are cool in theory, but then can never be enticed to watch, including these fusions
The only sports manga I read were really board-game manga's even
(the odd Sports Episode an exception)
Oh wait I think I read some Football and Ice Hockey YA when I was a YA
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Also a noted singer
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Is that like a spiritual sequel to AMONG OTHERS?
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Basically off topic but the most telling missed opportunity of Discos jump forward is that they never reintroduced the Klingons as a basically completely different thing now